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I like anime, philosophy, theatre, and art; I had to pause the latter two for a while to become a computer scientist–and, recently, a mathematician. Perhaps in a parallel life2, I am currently performing on a stage and possibly a cubist in another.
In philosophy3, I am mostly intrigued by foundations of mathematics, reasoning, language, morality, and theology (with relatively increased interest in theodicy).
These are some selected articles that influenced my understanding:
- Leibniz on the Problem of Evil
- Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Mathematics
- The Problem of Induction
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- The depth(s) of the twentieth century
- Postscript on the Societies of Control (suggested by William Briguglio)
- Logic for Analyzing Games
- Integrity (Quotes)
- Fallacies
- Kant's Account of Reason
- Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
- Trinity
- The Ethics of Manipulation
- Philosophy of Money and Finance
- Arrow's impossibility theorem
- Boundary
- Abduction (and Is Best Good Enough?)
- Authenticity
- Modesty and Humility
- \(\textcolor{green}{Hope}\) 💐
Here are some works I enjoyed reading and/or edified me:
| Émile, or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rosseau | No Exit, and three other plays by Jean-Paul Sartre | THE TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIBLIA HEBRAICA (suggested by Ahmed Farrag) | THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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| Laches by Plato | Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak | TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS by Ludwig Wittgenstein | Daode Jing by Laozi |
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Here are the ones I would like to read at some point:
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Random—or is it?
- do all first links on wikipedia lead to philosophy? (but I–coincidentally–found an exception; entity)
- Photography Law
- From Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh: Letter
- The Sixth Form Curriculum at Harrow School
- Good Samaritan Law
- Telephone call recording laws
- Philo5
- Academic Obstacles of First-Generation Students at Research Universities
- BRITISH PATHÉ Collection of WW1
- Encyclopedia of things considered harmful
- Favorite YouTube video
- The Wiki Game
- Man-made Famine
- Joseph Merrick
- The philosophy map, made by Carneades—the youtube channel.
\(\{ \text{course}\ :\ \text{course} \notin \text{CS} \}\)
Compositions
Keyboard and string instruments are my favorite.
Paintings4
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| Garçon à la pipe | Hand with reflecting sphere | Girl with a Mandolin |
Music
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Quotes
“If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”— C.S. Lewis
“Be guided by beauty. I really mean that. Pretty much everything I’ve done has had an aesthetic component, at least to me. Now you might think ‘well, building a company that’s trading bonds, what’s so aesthetic about that?’ But, what’s aesthetic about it is doing it right. Getting the right kind of people, and approaching the problem, and doing it right […] it’s a beautiful thing to do something right.”— Jim Simons
“But for such a man, truth is all one, and mathematics is but one of the mirrors in which it is reflected - perhaps more purely than it is elsewhere.”— André Weil [talking about Max Dehn]
“Beware of what you become in pursuit of what you want”—Jim Rohn
“Be fresh and eager every morning, and tired and satisfied every night.”—Kent Beck
“… and whatever a man knows, whatever is not mere rumbling and roaring that he has heard, can be said in three words.”—Kürnberger.
Footnotes:
: Would you like to split the world? Ok, but not too many times, we are barely surviving in this one: http://qol.tau.ac.il
: This hyperlink (along with an extensive explanation) was Prof. Edward N. Zalta's response to me when I inquired about the absence of an article defining Philosophy on SEP.